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Andy Meek
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Here's the thing: I couldn't care less about sharks, or the slightly bizarre annual celebration of the ocean's apex predators known as Shark Week. I feel like I need to state that from the outset -- because even with that being the case, one of my favorite recent Internet discoveries is, well, a shark-tracking app. The app is the OCEARCH Shark Tracker, and I can't stress these two points enough:
First, I was utterly blown away by what you learn from this app. Basically, it shows you the travels of sharks that researchers have tagged. Click on one of the dots in the map's ocean, and it brings up every place where a particular shark's tracker has pinged. A menu pops up, and you can see photos as well as read about the individual sharks in fantastic detail. From their names, to their ages and species. Whenever these sharks' trackers have pinged, the spot is marked as a dot, all of which are plotted in a line -- up to the last point where the tracker emitted a signal. For most of these bad boys, the paths that have been plotted are truly insane. They apparently swim like tireless demons, often traversing the length of, for example, the entire Eastern Seaboard of the US. And this brings me to the second of two points I noted above.
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